#fortune

There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else. ↗

— Pete Hamill

#anywhere #bigger #country #diamonds #disasters

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#being happy #comes #fortune #generous #good

A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married. ↗

— Anna Held

#before #fortune #get #get married #her

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#fortune #happiness #hostage

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#imagination #misfortune #quixote

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. ↗

— Epictetus

#begun #complete #education #misfortunes #neither

My submission to you is we're fighting the war on terror not overseas but in our own streets, and we'd be spending vast more fortunes to try to be a defensive country to protect ourselves rather than an offensive country to spread democracy wherever people yearn for it. ↗

— Johnny Isakson

#defensive #democracy #fighting #fortunes #more

Fortune favors the audacious. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#favors #fortune

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together. ↗

— Douglas William Jerrold

#hang #like #long #made #shirts

I still follow Chelsea's fortunes. ↗

— Andriy Shevchenko

#follow #fortunes #i #still